What Does 2 Chronicles 24:9 Mean in the King James?

And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.

2 Chronicles 24:9 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The collection is a thing lifted and carried, so the verse holds a shared offering and a shared burden in the same image.

THE MEANING

A call moves through the whole community, and what rests upon the people is carried together to the LORD. The contribution is not detached from its weight: the same word holds what is brought as an offering and what is laid upon the people.

THE ROOT

מַשְׂאַת

mas'et

GROWS FROM

נשא

nasa

To lift, carry, or bear.

English gives “collection” and “laid upon” separate jobs, while the Hebrew word for the collection grows from nasa, “to lift, carry, bear.” The gift is something Israel bears together; the word holds contribution and burden in one image.

ALSO GROWS

nasa: To lift, carry, or bear.

נָשָׂא

This verb is the seed behind the collection’s image of something carried.

massa: A load or burden.

מַשָּׂא

The same root names what is carried as weight, keeping the levy’s burden alongside its meaning as a contribution.

THE PATTERN

A community gathers what it carries and directs it toward shared worship or need.

The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.

Exodus 35:29 · KJVThe people bring their separate contributions together for the work shared by the whole community.

Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

1 Chronicles 29:9 · KJVThe people’s gathered offering becomes a shared act of giving to the LORD.

But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:

2 Corinthians 8:14 · KJVWhat one community has in abundance becomes provision for another community’s need.

THE THREAD

When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.

Exodus 30:12 · KJV

The Hebrew phrase ⁨כִּי תִשָּׂא⁩ (ki tisa, “when you lift”) uses the same root, nasa, as the collection in Chronicles. In Exodus, lifting the people’s count is joined to each person giving to the LORD; the shared root links gathering the people with what they carry.

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